Question for left handed people.

I believe DS (dear son) is left handed and preschool has said they think this as well. My DH (dear husband) disagrees cause when they place any type of sport (baseball, basketball, football) DS (dear son) will use his right hand but when he eats or writes it is with his left hand ALWAYS.

I have an Aunt and sister who is left handed and they play tennis with their right hand. On eats with her right hand but they write with their left hand. They consider themselves left-handed not ambidextrious.

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My DH (dear husband) and I are both left handed, unfortunately our Junie is a righty... :)

I do everything left handed except for using a scissors or a computer mouse. My sister grew up doing everything left handed and slowly started doing more things right handed and now is a full on righty, although she can still write just as well with her left-weird!

I would say your DS (dear son) is a lefty because that is the hand he writes with. Also, left handers are better at using their right hand. We were just talking about this the other day, and my sister was saying how her left hand is basically useless.

I think it's actually quite common. My sister does small motions with her left hand - writing, drawing, etc. But she can bat right or left handed, and bigger motions are often her right hand. My son is the same way. He's in kindergarten and he's absolutely left handed (in the sense of the writing hand) - but some bigger motions he will use his right hand.

I'm not sure of the technical definition of left-handed or ambidextrous, but my understanding is that if you consider lefties to be people who write with their left hands, it's very common for them to be able to use their right hands for stuff as well, but they will probably never write as well with their right hand - but maybe that would be termed ambidextrous.

I am right handed, but odd, like her grandpa is a lefty. She writes and colors with her left hand, but sometimes does other things with her right hand.

I write and do computer stuff with my right hand, but throwing a ball and other sorts of stuff I use my left hand. I CANNOT even think about throwing stuff with my right hand lol it will just end badly.

My dad and both my brothers are lefties. My younger brother I call ambidextrous for this reason. He plays baseball and basketball right handed, but he writes and eats left-handed. He uses scissors right handed too.

Here is what I found on Wikipedia. Sounds like your son is a typical left hander in every sense. I would say left handedness is primarily determined by which hand they write with.

Ambidexterity is the state of being equally adept in the use of both left and right hands. People that are naturally ambidextrous are uncommon, with only one out of one hundred people being naturally ambidextrous. The degree of versatility with each hand is generally the qualitative factor in determining a person's ambidexterity.

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